Lots of medications can certainly increase your illusion of a perception of increased psychic awareness, but, the only universe you'll wind up
exploring is the one tattooed on the inside of your skull.

This is true of meditation, and all altered states. It's not intergalactic mind travel, but, inter-cranial subjective internal experiences.

Some medications will have a higher propensity for causing these OBE illusions.

Not the pain pills they would have given you to take home, but the anesthesia or nitrous oxide they give while they are taking the teeth out can
definitely produce those effects. A similar thing happened to me after an outpatient surgery I had many years ago.

I get the feeling that anything which numbs the body would help ease the transition into an obe state; much like the old pagan practise of using a
witch's cradle to numb the body and essentially obe. After all, one of the key points in having an obe (a planned one anyway) is to relax, let your
body fall asleep then essentially trick yourself into being elsewhere, whether that's by letting yourself be risen up or perhaps by visualising being
somewhere else entirely in the room and "snapping" to that location.

Personally I'm still not sure about the phenomenon as I have experienced it myself many many times and I still question whether it's part of the
mind or something else entirely. I would love to undoubtedly believe it was my soul that was drifting about but my growing cynicism over the years
just won't let me

One thing I can't explain is the feeling prior to an obe. That is probably the most bizarre thing about the experience.

Anyway I'm mumbling on, it sounds to me like you did have an obe

Also, congrats on having 4 of your wisdom teeth taken out at once, braver than I!
It took all my courage to just get a filling last year!

Pain meds can cause the liver to slow and this can cause your mind to do strange things since you are not detoxing. They can also stimulate the body
through various complex systems to release chemicals that cause pain relief and also can have some psychotropic side effects. As to whether they will
cause psychic awareness, I can't tell you. I am sure the drugs aren't tested for psychic awareness

I read a lot of research on these things
and I have never seen psychic awareness listed as a side effect. It Doesn't mean that they can't, it just means that the concept was not
investigated. The question is whether psychic awareness is the same thing as visual and audio hallucinations.

A white clover flower can cause a release of chemistry to make us not feel pain if our body contains adequate amounts of the chemicals needed to do
so. The pain is not felt at the brain level in this case and only effects the central nervous system I guess. It works good for me and another
person who tried it but I suppose it doesn't work for everyone. It also mellowed me out.

I'm assuming you were either given Vicoden (Hydrocodone) or Percocet (oxycodone) in which case there could be a fairly mundane explanation for
this.

Opiates can induce what is sometimes referred to as "nodding out" It's basically falling asleep, but not quite. You'll be sitting there on the
couch, watching TV, then 5 minutes later or whatever you'll "come to" and realize you were passed out for the last few minutes. It's much quicker
and comes on with less warning (for the inexperienced) than actual sleep does, so it's pretty easy to just drift off without noticing.

It's also pretty common to "dream" during this nod period, although once again it's not really like true dreaming or sleeping. It's more similar
to when you wake up in the morning, then while still laying in bed sort of half-dream yourself getting out of bed, using the bathroom, making coffe,
etc then you actually wake up and realize you are still in bed.

After I had surgery I was on pretty heavy doses of Oxycodone and I'd often find myself nodding out, having short, almost lucid dream like states,
then waking back up. I'd be sitting there thinking about whatever, then things would start to seem a little strange, things would happen in
impossible ways, then I'd realize I was dreaming, and think to myself "how can I be dreaming, i was just sitting on the couch a few minutes ago"
after which I'd wake up and realized I nodded off.

This was the first thing that came to mind after reading your experience, as it seems to exactly match what people experience during an opiate nod.
You can instantly slip into a near-dream state without warning, and personally my dream state would just continue from where I passed out, meaning
there was almost a seamless transition from being awake to dreaming. It would be like sitting there one moment, the next moment you are in a dream
state, but everything in the same. Then it takes a few minutes to realize you are continuing inside your own mind instead of in the real world, or you
dont realize and wake up anyway, remembering very well the "dream" you just had. And being confused if it's something you aren't used to.

I'm prescribed 120 mgs of morphine sulfate daily.I think a little more potent then what your dentist gave you and no obes,hallucinations,hell I don't
even get high!I think your just not used to pain meds.

AliceBleachWhite
Lots of medications can certainly increase your illusion of a perception of increased psychic awareness, but, the only universe you'll wind up
exploring is the one tattooed on the inside of your skull.

This is true of meditation, and all altered states. It's not intergalactic mind travel, but, inter-cranial subjective internal experiences.

Some medications will have a higher propensity for causing these OBE illusions.

edit on 10/28/2013 by AliceBleachWhite because: (no reason given)

"OBE illusions" ? I always find it fascinating when someone has the ego to state such things. I guess you solved the hard problem in your spare time ?
The centuries of philosophical debate of the origin of consciousness and soul can now all be dismissed. I guess Dr. Sam Parnia and the aware project
can shut up shop, AliceBleachWhite has the answer.

In the 1980s my mother was going off some type of anti-depressant and rather than do as the doctor said and take smaller doses each day she quit all
at once and went back to work as a teacher. That day she quit taking it she said she had an experience where she swears she was floating above her
students and could see the tops of their heads. Her doctor said that wasn't a symptom that he had heard of before. I told her it sounded like an Out
of Body Experience, but she didn't know what to think of it.

A lot of powerful prescribed pain medications are indeed opiates, that is why they are so addicting, also if you never had them before you will have a
more stronger reaction to them that most people that have used them before.

The medications do not take away the pain they just work with your brain to make you think that pain is not there anymore.

One of the main side effects is nausea when you move, that is the one side effect that I hate the most and keeps me away from taking them.

Well there is no actual evidence that the mind leaves the body in an OBE so technically untill proven otherwise they are just illusions. Not to the
experiencer though and insight can still come from such phenomena but anything happening outside the body is highly debatable.

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